Institute for Environmental Security

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The Institute for Environmental Security (IES) is an international non-profit non-governmental organisation established in 2002 in The Hague, in order to increase political attention to environmental security as a means to help safeguard essential conditions for peace and sustainable development.

IES News

Report published on water and security meeting

The Hague Roundtable on Climate & Security focuses on water

International cooperation on water-related climate risks was the theme of the fifth Hague Roundtable on Climate and Security on 19 April. More than 40 representatives of embassies and non-governmental institutes shared strategies on water issues at the meeting hosted by the Ambassador of Australia to the Netherlands, H.E. Dr Brett... » Full Story

Environment and Security in the Southern Mediterranean Region

The IES facilitated an OSCE workshop to explore and map existing and especially new environmental issues that may have an impact on security as well as environmental implications of security policies in a region undergoing major political changes; create wider understanding of the national, regional and international frameworks and mechanisms available for cooperation on environment and security issues in the region; and to put forward recommendations for increased national, regional and international action and solutions on environment and security issues including with regard to the role of the OSCE. » More information

SYMIN Project

Together with its partners GAF AG and DLR, the IES has been tasked by the European Space Agency to provide timely information to Afghanistan's Ministry of Mines about informal mining in some of its remotest regions.

Climate Change & the Military Project

The CCTM Project aims at stimulating the debate on the relation between climate change and the role of the military and on how it could contribute to the struggle against impending security threats. » Read more about this project

EnviroSecurity Assessments

The IES EnviroSecurity Assessments focusing on the Matavén forest - Colombia, the African Great Lakes region and Central Kalimantan - Indonesia are available on this site. Meanwhile, the IES is working on an EnviroSecurity Assessment for the Congo Basin and the Horn of Africa.
Case study reports, legal analyses, recommendations, maps, posters and the latest news are available here. » ESPA Programme

'Vision' Interactive Map Viewer

The IES interactive map viewer displays overlapping GIS data on the IES case studies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
View GIS data and satellite images selecting your own combination of data and analytical indicators for different time periods.